Odyssey Elementary School

Odyssey Elementary School, an average-sized primary school in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, run under El Paso County Colorado School District 49, instructs 378 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

El Paso County Colorado School District 49 comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 25,689 students; Odyssey Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Odyssey Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 34% Hispanic, 17% multiracial, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Odyssey Elementary School reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Odyssey Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.0%; this one delivers 34.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (El Paso County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $90,363 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across El Paso County's 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), Odyssey Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ALLIES, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Odyssey Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

Odyssey Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Odyssey Elementary School's enrollment has fell 21% since 2018, when it stood at 477 (now 378). Over the same period, the White share fell from 52% to 40%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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